Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rigidity of J. Edgar Hoover's policy forbade the creative individuality so vital to the effective structure of an intelligence operation. Agents, overloaded with work, were instructed to relegate security intelligence procedures to the lowest possible realm of importance. Thus, since criminal procedures took obvious precedence, abysmal gaps formed within the Bureau office itself. The field picture was even more dismal. Uninformed agents, without any field intelligence training whatsoever, insisted upon ordering the informants' strategic moves, demanding absolute obedience. This resulted in a staggering attrition rate among Bureau informants. Those who succeeded in the field owed their success to outright...
...rigidity of J. Edgar Hoover's policy forbade the creative individuality so vital to the effective structure of an intelligence operation," Gill wrote. (See page...
...marvels at how the FBI projects its own image onto that of its enemies, assuming that because it plays sneaky, they must also. J. Edgar Hoover himself could have appeared at a Harvard SDS meeting and gleaned as much useful information as Gill obtained. Her work was probably at best a minor nuisance to SDS, probably not worth the $50 the FBI allegedly tossed her every now and then. They surely could have invested their money more wisely...
...Edgar Hoover, the late FBI director, in a letter to a New Hampshire Congressman acknowledged that Gill had "furnished information" to his agency and that she had been "fully compensated for her services...
William Loeb, the conservative New Hampshire publisher, approached Hoover and probably the CIA through Cleveland and other Washington officials to insure that Gill was paid, although he said he never...